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Pike Place Fish Market is an open-air fish market at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, United States, located at the corner of Pike Street and Pike Place. Founded in 1930, it is known for its tradition of fishmongers throwing the fish purchased by customers prior to wrapping it. [ 1 ]
The market was created in 1907 when city councilman Thomas P. Revelle took advantage of the precedent of an 1896 Seattle city ordinance that allowed the city to designate tracts of land as public markets [12] and designated a portion of the area of Western Avenue above the Elliott Bay tideflats off Pike Street and First Avenue. [13]
The fish market and seafood bar Jack's Fish Spot operates in Pike Place Market's Sanitary Market building, [1] in the Central Waterfront district of Seattle. The business has stocked dungeness crab, manila clams, flounder, [2] mussels, [3] sockeye and king salmon, and oysters. [4]
Seattle Seattle’s Pike Place Market may be most famous as a spot to grab some clam chowder, a few oysters, and watch a bunch of dudes throw salmon to each other.
On a visit to Seattle in 1997, John Christensen, owner of ChartHouse Learning, observed fish sellers at Pike Place Fish Market tossing trout and salmon through the air of the market, providing high energy that energized many pedestrians passing by on their lunch breaks. [2]
Athenian Seafood Restaurant and Bar, or simply The Athenian, [1] is a seafood restaurant in Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business was established in 1909, [2] and became one of Seattle's first to acquire a beer license in 1933. The Athenian appeared in Sleepless in Seattle. [1]
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